Method of analyzing industrial food products, cosmetics, and/or hygiene products, a measurement interface for implementing the method, and an electronic system for implementing the interface

Abstract

The invention seeks to improve the taking of physical measurements on an industrial product represented by organoleptic perceptions, the method providing a measurement interface that submits descriptors in a relative arrangement such that testers are not influenced by the order in which they appear, regardless of the descriptor and regardless of the field of the descriptor. For this purpose, the invention provides a method of analyzing industrial products in order to characterize them, in order to distinguish between them, and / or in order to modify them so as to improve them, by analyzing the responses of a panel of testers in application of certain descriptors. The method comprises steps consisting in selecting descriptors that are a priori pertinent for determining the organoleptic characteristics of the products; selecting a response mode; providing all of the descriptors simultaneously to the panel of testers on a single occasion and for a determined duration in a measurement interface presenting a center and an input zone for each descriptor, the input zones being distributed uniformly over at least a section of at least one conic about the center of the interface; collecting the responses from each tester as a function of the selected response mode; recording the responses; and analyzing the responses using at least one statistical method.

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[0001]The invention relates to a method of analyzing industrial products, to a measurement interface for implementing the method, and to an electronic system for implementing the interface.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]When manufacturing a food product, a cosmetic, and / or a hygiene product, numerous analyzes can be performed regularly in order to monitor the composition of the product and its state of hygiene (quality control, hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP), etc.). These analyses are generally implemented by means of automatic machines capable of giving very precise quantitative results on said composition or hygiene states (quantity of bacteria, quantity of each element, etc.).[0003]However, it is also appropriate to perform organoleptic analyses during creation of a product or while it is being renovated, i.e. when similar competing products are on the market and it is necessary to offer a product having its own “character”, while nevertheless conserving the...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention aims to improve the physical measurements of industrial products by eliminating the influence of testers' perception and transcription. To achieve this, the invention proposes a measurement interface that submits descriptors in a relative arrangement to testers, regardless of their order and field of interest. The method involves selecting descriptors that are relevant for determining the characteristics of the products, selecting a response mode for the testers, providing all descriptors simultaneously to the testers, collecting the responses, recording the responses, and analyzing them using statistical methods. The invention also provides an electronic system for implementing the measurement interface and a display of the results of the statistical processing. The technical effect of the invention is to improve the accuracy and reliability of physical measurements of industrial products through the elimination of tester influence.

Problems solved by technology

However, studies undertaken by the Applicant have shown that in spite of recommendations, testers generally mark descriptors, e.g. for intensity, in the order in which they are read successively from the list supplied to them, and not in the order in which a descriptor appears and / or becomes pertinent during tasting.

That method of proceeding presents major drawbacks:Certain descriptors are poorly marked or not marked at all.

Thus, a tester wasting time in consulting the list to find the descriptor that has just been perceived, while continuing to perceive other descriptors, runs a critical risk of reversing the order in which said descriptors appear, and the marking is thus falsified.

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